What are your preferred lipid-lowering agents and target LDL reduction goal following initiation of therapy for patients with familial hyperlipidemia without underlying CAD?
What are your preferred lipid-lowering agents and target LDL reduction goal following initiation of therapy for patients with familial hyperlipidemia without underlyyng CAD?
Answer from: at Community Practice
It is not easy to address this question without specifics of the 'familial hyperlipidemia," but I will give examples:
Monogenic familial hypercholesterolemia - since the LDL is very high from early childhood, we tend to treat adolescents with statins with a goal of a 50% reduction (20 or 40 rosuv...